MURDER IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 7

MURDER IN IRELAND.

RED ROLL OF FIVE DAYS. EIGHTY PEOPLE KILLED. ATTACK ON CORK GAOL. (P.t Cablc.-I'ress Association.—Copxright) : LONDON, March 25. It is calculated that Sll ]«?ople have been killed in nghting in Ireland in the ! iast live days. . A force of the Irish Republican Army furroundod Cork gaol List night and made a desperate nut unsuccessful attempt to liberate prisoners. The n-beis i rir-t wized the post otli-e and impri-oned .the staff, together with 100 personlound in the streets near the prison. J.'ley placed a guard over the building. ! instructing the occupants to lie nu the I door when ririnp began. The rebel- then '■■ -aled :he walls of the gaol and dropped ; rope ladders into the yard. Une {.iiliti- : cal prisoner, seeing » ladder, made n I dash for liberty, but was recaptured. Finding that their plan was unsiuvessful the rebels dispersed. Fifty rebels attacked a patrol of five Irish Constabulary ir. County Tippcrary. : Two constables were killed, but reini foreements f rom Cloplieen came up and . captured 30 rebel-. A party of police, when searehine for three murderers who were known t~o be ; hiding in Blarney, was fired on from a I farm nuthouse. Later, a number of men made a dash for liberty from the'buiiding. and ran into a police cordon. Hand-to-hand fighting en«ued, in which six ! civilians were killed. 1.-ouis D'Arcy. a commandant in the Irish Republican Army, whs shn-. dead a; fVanmnre when attempting to escape from custody. As v reprisal for the ambush at Pittigarvnn earlier in the week, in which a police sergeant was captured and afterward' shot, the military levied a fine of £10f) on fivp houses, the alternative being the destruction of their furniture. One household paid the fine. In the remaining cases the threat was carried out. Three hours of desperate iighting fol- ' lowed an attack on a police patrol at J Pingle. Kerry. Eight civilians were i killed and 20 wounded, while four police ; were wounded, but not seriously. I It was stated in the House of Com ! mons that 533 barracks and courthouses ! were destroyed in Ireland in 1020—(A. jand X.Z. Cable 1 A RAID IN DUBLIN. ; REBEL ARSENAL CAPTURED. ! TWO MURDEROUS ATTACKS. .Received I p.m.' I LONDON. March 2;.. ! The police raided the stables in Charles f Street. Dublin, and secured a big haul lof revolvers, rifies. small arms ammuniI tion. shells, field telephones, and also three motor cars loaded with arms and j ammunition. i Armed civilians in Cork Street. DubI 1 in. fired on ex-Sergeant Lenehaui. wound- ] ing him ill several place*. A man and I two little girls passing were also serli ously wounded, one girl having since ! died. j Armed men shot dead John Cathcart. < ir«anaging director of the I'asley Company, after forcing a way into his home at Youghal. County Cork. An envelope inscribed "'Convicted spy: spies and informers beware,"' was placed on the body. J iA. and N.Z. Cable.) ! WRECKING THE PARLIAMENT. I IAVDOX, March 2.V According to "Freeman's Journal,'" the Sinn Feiners and Irish Nationalists have I arrived at a provisional agreement to j present a united front against Fir i Kdward Carson's party in the election of J the Ulster Parliament, but none of their successful candidates will take their I seats.— iA. and >" Z. Cable.) EXECUTIONS SUSPENDED. ! TX>NTX>N, March 2j. The irMi Chief Justice granted oon- . ditional habeas corpus orders in the ! cases of O'Sulliran. Moore. O'Leary. and j three other Irish rebels who are under , sentence of death, at Cork. The apnli- ! cants argued that the. court-martial I which sentenced them had no jurisdiction. Counsel pointed out that three of th<? prisoners were to be executed on Saturday i The Chief Justice remarked that no- | body would he executed in thp.t county lin face of the Court's order.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.l